Ebook: Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals Held May 4–7, 2003, in Breckenridge, CO

In Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals: The Twenty-Fifth Symposium, leading American and international researchers from academia, industry, and government present the latest research and breakthroughs on how biotechnology is being used to produce economically competitive fuels and chemicals in a sustainable and environmentally responsible manner. The contributors discuss both fundamental science discoveries and the progress that has been made in commercialization efforts. Special attention is given to biofeedstock (plant genomics, production, and pretreatment), bioprocessing, direct production in plants, and the use of molecular biology and genomics to create new biocatalysts. The field continues to expand, and the ideas and techniques described here will play important roles in developing new biological processes for producing fuels and chemicals on a large scale, as well as for reducing pollution and waste disposal problems and their adverse impacts on global climate change. Cutting-edge and authoritative, Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals: The Twenty-Fifth Symposium provides an excellent overview of current research and development in the production of commodity fuels and chemicals via biological transformation.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Feedstock Supply, Logistics, Processing, and Composition....Pages 3-4
Designing an Effective Federal Biomass Program....Pages 5-12
Methodology for Estimating Removable Quantities of Agricultural Residues for Bioenergy and Bioproduct Use....Pages 13-26
Pipeline Transport of Biomass....Pages 27-39
Hydrodynamic Separation of Grain and Stover Components in Corn Silage....Pages 41-54
A New Class of Plants for a Biofuel Feedstock Energy Crop....Pages 55-70
Fungal Upgrading of Wheat Straw for Straw-Thermoplastics Production....Pages 71-93
Economic Analysis of Ethanol Production in California Using Traditional and Innovative Feedstock Supplies....Pages 95-110
Enzyme Catalysis and Engineering....Pages 113-113
Dynamics of Cellulase Production by Glucose Grown Cultures of Trichoderma reesei Rut-C30 as a Response to Addition of Cellulose....Pages 115-124
Development and Application of an Integrated System for Monitoring Ethanol Content of Fuels....Pages 125-136
Model Based Soft-Sensor for On-Line Determination of Substrate....Pages 137-144
Screening of Dowex® Anion-Exchange Resins for Invertase Immobilization....Pages 145-159
Effects of Carbon Source on Expression of Alcohol Oxidase Activity and on Morphologic Pattern of YR-1 Strain, a Filamentous Fungus Isolated from Petroleum-Contaminated Soils....Pages 161-171
Ester Synthesis Catalyzed by Mucor miehei Lipase Immobilized on Magnetic Polysiloxane-Polyvinyl Alcohol Particles....Pages 173-180
Effect of pH on Cellulase Production of Trichoderma reesei RUT C30....Pages 181-187
Quantitative Analysis of Cellulose-Reducing Ends....Pages 189-199
Properties of a Recombinant ?-Glucosidase from Polycentric Anaerobic Fungus Orpinomyces PC-2 and Its Application for Cellulose Hydrolysis....Pages 201-211
Front Matter....Pages 213-231
Characterization and Performance of Immobilized Amylase and Cellulase....Pages 233-250
Immobilized Enzyme Studies in a Microscale Bioreactor....Pages 1-1
Performance of Chloroperoxidase Stabilization in Mesoporous Sol-Gel Glass Using In Situ Glucose Oxidase Peroxide Generation....Pages 251-259
Kinetics of Asparaginase II Fermentation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae ure2dal80 Mutant....Pages 261-272
Studies on Immobilized Lipase in Hydrophobic Sol-Gel....Pages 273-285
Front Matter....Pages 287-297
Introduction to Microbial Catalysis and Engineering....Pages 299-305
Biosynthesis of Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyalkanoates) by Metabolically Engineered Escherichia coli Strains....Pages 307-319
Effect of Corn Stover Concentration on Rheological Characteristics....Pages 321-321
Construction of Recombinant Escherichia coli Strains for Production of Poly-(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate)....Pages 323-324
Biosynthesis of (R)-3-Hydroxyalkanoic Acids by Metabolically Engineered Escherichia coli....Pages 325-334
Gibberellic Acid Production by Free and Immobilized Cells in Different Culture Systems....Pages 335-346
Screening Genus Penicillium for Producers of Cellulolytic and Xylanolytic Enzymes....Pages 347-360
Production of Ethanol from Cellulosic Biomass Hydrolysates Using Genetically Engineered Saccharomyces Yeast Capable of Cofermenting Glucose and Xylose....Pages 361-372
Secondary Membranes for Flux Optimization in Membrane Filtration of Biologic Suspensions....Pages 373-379
Enzymatic Synthesis of Monolaurin....Pages 381-388
Bioprocessing, Including Separations....Pages 389-401
Evaluation of Recombinant Green Fluorescent Protein, Under Various Culture Conditions and Purification with HiTrap Hydrophobic Interaction Chromatography Resins....Pages 403-416
Thermal Stability of Recombinant Green Fluorescent Protein (GFPuv) at Various pH Values....Pages 417-432
Front Matter....Pages 433-445
Evaluation of Optimization Techniques for an Extractive Alcoholic Fermentation Process....Pages 449-451
Optimization of Steam Pretreatment of Corn Stover to Enhance Enzymatic Digestibility....Pages 453-468
Selection of Anion Exchangers for Detoxification of Dilute-Acid Hydrolysates from Spruce....Pages 469-483
Ethanol Production in Immobilized-Cell Bioreactors from Mixed Sugar Syrups and Enzymatic Hydrolysates of Steam-Exploded Biomass....Pages 321-321
Silymarin Extraction from Milk Thistle Using Hot Water....Pages 485-496
Extraction of Antioxidant Compounds from Energy Crops....Pages 497-508
Cellulase Retention and Sugar Removal by Membrane Ultrafiltration During Lignocellulosic Biomass Hydrolysis....Pages 509-523
Controlled Fed-Batch Fermentations of Dilute-Acid Hydrolysate in Pilot Development Unit Scale....Pages 525-538
Degeneration of ?-Glucosidase Activity in a Foam Fractionation Process....Pages 539-557
Simultaneous Production of Nisin and Lactic Acid from Cheese Whey....Pages 559-568
Effect of Process Parameters on Production of a Biopolymer by Rhizobium sp....Pages 569-583
Succinic Acid Adsorption from Fermentation Broth and Regeneration....Pages 585-599
A Hollow-Fiber Membrane Extraction Process for Recovery and Separation of Lactic Acid from Aqueous Solution....Pages 601-617
Evaluation of Tocopherol Recovery Through Simulation of Molecular Distillation Process....Pages 619-625
High-Productivity Continuous Biofilm Reactor for Butanol Production....Pages 627-638
Measurement of Rheology of Distiller’s Grain Slurries Using a Helical Impeller Viscometer....Pages 639-652
Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation and Redesign of a Screw Conveyor Reactor....Pages 653-669
Production of Biodiesel Fuel by Transesterification of Rapeseed Oil....Pages 671-688
Front Matter....Pages 689-711
Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals— Past, Present, and Future....Pages 713-721
Front Matter....Pages 723-732
Origins of and Changes in the Symposium Series on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals....Pages 733-745
Optimization of Enzymatic Production of Biodiesel from Castor Oil in Organic Solvent Medium....Pages 747-758
Two-Step Preparation for Catalyst-Free Biodiesel Fuel Production....Pages 759-759
Biodiesel Fuel from Vegetable Oil by Various Supercritical Alcohols....Pages 761-763
Biobased Industrial Chemicals....Pages 759-759
Effects of Trace Contaminants on Catalytic Processing of Biomass-Derived Feedstocks....Pages 765-769
Characterization of Surfactin from Bacillus subtilis for Application as an Agent for Enhanced Oil Recovery....Pages 771-780
Effect of Germ and Fiber Removal on Production of Ethanol from Corn....Pages 781-791
Production of Fumaric Acid Using Rice Bran and Subsequent Conversion to Succinic Acid Through a Two-Step Process....Pages 793-801
Catalytic Hydrogenation of Glutamic Acid....Pages 805-806
Opportunities in the Industrial Biobased Products Industry....Pages 807-825
Continuous Production of Butanol by Clostridium acetobutylicum Immobilized in a Fibrous Bed Bioreactor....Pages 827-836
Lipopeptide Surfactant Production by Bacillus subtilis Grown on Low-Cost Raw Materials....Pages 837-842
Higher-Alcohols Biorefinery....Pages 843-855
Biomass Pretreatment and Hydrolysis....Pages 857-869
Fermentation of “Quick Fiber” Produced from a Modified Corn-Milling Process into Ethanol and Recovery of Corn Fiber Oil....Pages 871-885
Ammonia Fiber Explosion Treatment of Corn Stover....Pages 887-898
Initial Evaluation of Simple Mass Transfer Models to Describe Hemicellulose Hydrolysis in Corn Stover....Pages 899-912
Impact of Fluid Velocity on Hot Water Only Pretreatment of Corn Stover in a Flowthrough Reactor....Pages 913-932
Combined Steam Pretreatment and Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Starch-Free Wheat Fibers....Pages 935-936
Front Matter....Pages 937-949
Application of Xylanase from Thermomyces lanuginosus IOC-4145 for Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Corncob and Sugarcane Bagasse....Pages 951-963
Predicted Effects of Mineral Neutralization and Bisulfate Formation on Hydrogen Ion Concentration for Dilute Sulfuric Acid Pretreatment....Pages 965-976
Enhancement of Enzymatic Digestibility of Recycled Newspaper by Addition of Surfactant in Ammonia-Hydrogen Peroxide Pretreatment....Pages 977-987
Study on Methane Fermentation and Production of Vitamin B12 from Alcohol Waste Slurry....Pages 989-1002
Comparison of Two Posthydrolysis Processes of Brewery’s Spent Grain Autohydrolysis Liquor to Produce a Pentose-Containing Culture Medium....Pages 759-759
Optimization of Brewery’s Spent Grain Dilute-Acid Hydrolysis for the Production of Pentose-Rich Culture Media....Pages 1003-1012
Comparison of Microbial Inhibition and Enzymatic Hydrolysis Rates of Liquid and Solid Fractions Produced from Pretreatment of Biomass with Carbonic Acid and Liquid Hot Water....Pages 1013-1022
Modeling of Carbonic Acid Pretreatment Process Using ASPEN-Plus®....Pages 1023-1031
Enhanced Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Steam-Exploded Douglas Fir Wood by Alkali-Oxygen Post-treatment....Pages 1033-1039
Effects of Sugar Inhibition on Cellulases and ?-Glucosidase During Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Softwood Substrates....Pages 1041-1058
Kinetics of Glucose Decomposition During Dilute-Acid Hydrolysis of Lignocellulosic Biomass....Pages 1059-1072
Conversion of Distiller’s Grain into Fuel Alcohol and a Higher-Value Animal Feed by Dilute-Acid Pretreatment....Pages 1073-1086
Plant Biotechnology and Feedstock Genomics....Pages 1087-1102
Expression of UDP—Glucose Dehydrogenase Reduces Cell-Wall Polysaccharide Concentration and Increases Xylose Content in Alfalfa Stems....Pages 1103-1114
Effects of Ammonia Fiber Explosion Treatment on Activity of Endoglucanase from Acidothermus cellulolyticus in Transgenic Plant....Pages 1115-1126
Effects of Inoculum Conditions on Growth of Hairy Roots of Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer....Pages 1127-1138
Microbial Pentose Metabolism....Pages 1139-1159
International Energy Agency—Bioenergy....Pages 1163-1165
Back Matter....Pages 1167-1182
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